NP - The Ask

[Mark Kohut]

I really liked an earlier one of his....Home Work? or something and I'mm n ot looking it up...........I heard him read from it.....hilarious....

--- On Mon, 3/1/10, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Subject: NP - The Ask
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Monday, March 1, 2010, 10:21 AM
> http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2010/02/hello-i-must-be-going.html
> 
>  Lipsyte's new novel The Ask, officially published next
> week, has the
> entire campus doing splits and cartwheels. "At times,
> Lipsyte’s
> contemporary satirical riffs are Led Zeppelin-like in their
> solid
> fury; it’s as if he’s the funniest, most correct
> documenter of various
> contemporary vapors.--Barrett Hathcock, The Quarterly
> Conversation. "I
> read it this weekend, in one sitting, and do heartily
> endorse it for
> all your literary needs. It will remind you in places of
> Joseph
> Heller, Money-era Martin Amis, and several other great
> writers, but it
> is the work of a wholly original voice who can plumb the
> depths of our
> sorry condition while simultaneously inducing audible
> cackling. It is
> very much a book for These Troubled Times."--Balk, The
> Awl.
>